January 14, 1920

Comrade Markov!

The bearer, Comrade Manuilsky, provincial food commissar of Ivanovo-Voznesensk province, whom we discussed with you over the telephone. I request that you receive him.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published (facsimile) in 1924 in the journal *Red Weaver* (Ivanovo-Voznesensk) No. 13

Printed from the manuscript